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The Wages of Sin (1956 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Wages of Sin' (French: 'Le salaire du pch') is a 1956 French drama film directed by Denys de La Patellire and starring Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Pascal and Jeanne Moreau. A film noir, it was adapted from the 1949 novel 'Emily Will Know' by the American crime writer Nancy RutledgeWalker-Morrison p.241 It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Bouti.
Synopsis
In La Rochelle Jean, an ambitious journalist, marries Isabelle the daughter of a wealthy shipowner but finds her cut out any inheritance. Later when he has discovered that she has been secretly added back into her father's will, he dreams about killing him and scares the old man into a heart attack. The only witness to the crime is the shipowner's nurse Angele who he seduces and now becomes his lover and accomplice, plotting to kill Isabelle so that they can claim the inheritance.
Cast
* Danielle Darrieux as Isabelle Lindstrom
* Jean-Claude Pascal as Jean de Charvin
* Jeanne Moreau as Angle Ribot
* Jean Debucourt as Frank Lindstrom
* Marcel Bozzuffi as un marin prsidant aux obsques
* Michel Etcheverry as Docteur Maroual
* Jean Lanier as Le pasteur
* Christian Lude as Benot
* Julien Verdier as Le libraire
* Georges Chamarat as Le mdecin
* Pierre Morin as M. Logan, le signataire
References
Bibliography
*Walker-Morrison, Deborah. 'Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire'. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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